{"id":61194,"date":"2026-10-29T10:23:04","date_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thesauditimes.net\/en\/?p=61194"},"modified":"2026-10-29T10:23:04","modified_gmt":"2026-10-29T07:23:04","slug":"google-deepmind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesauditimes.net\/en\/google-deepmind\/","title":{"rendered":"Google DeepMind: the AI lab behind Gemini and AlphaFold"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google DeepMind is the artificial intelligence research and development unit of Google<\/a>, part of Alphabet Inc. It builds the Gemini family of AI models and created AlphaGo and AlphaFold, and it describes its mission as “to build AI responsibly to benefit humanity”.<\/p>\n

The unit sits at the centre of Google’s AI plans. Its models power the Gemini app, which Alphabet says passed 750 million monthly active users at the end of 2025, and two of its scientists shared the 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.<\/p>\n

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Building entrance at 6 Pancras Square in London, home of Google and DeepMind offices. Photo: Gciriani, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Overview and Founding<\/h3>\n

DeepMind started in London in 2010. Its chief executive, Demis Hassabis<\/a>, co-founded it, and press reports in 2014 named him, Shane Legg and Mustafa Suleyman as the people running the young company. The company says it set out with an interdisciplinary approach to general AI.<\/p>\n

An early result was DQN, a program that learned to play 49 Atari games using only the raw pixels on the screen as input. Google DeepMind says this work made it a pioneer of deep reinforcement learning, in which a system learns by trial and reward.<\/p>\n

Google agreed to buy DeepMind in January 2014. The lab remained in London, where the Nobel committee still lists Google DeepMind as the home of its two laureates.<\/p>\n

Google had a second AI group of its own. The Brain team began in 2011 at X, Alphabet’s research lab, and in 2017 its researchers invented the Transformer, a model architecture for processing language and other sequences.<\/p>\n

In April 2023 Google chief executive Sundar Pichai combined the Brain team and DeepMind into one unit, Google DeepMind, with Hassabis as chief executive. Pichai wrote that the group would bring together two leading research teams in the field.<\/p>\n

Key Milestones<\/h3>\n